Think Before You Drink

I went to Walmart on Friday - and was waiting in the back of the store (where you have balloons filled)....and while I was waiting, I was serenaded by the violent sound of a woman vomiting in the bathroom. The sound stopped and two women emerged from the bathroom. One stopped at the door and continued to vomit directly into the drinking fountain. The other stood by her side, screaming at her in Spanish.

I wish I was fluent....but alas, I have but a Dora/Diego/Handy Manny Vocab. I somehow don't think she was screaming "Good morning", "Yellow", "Hammer" or "Family".

As I quickly fled the scene, I tried to think of all of the possible things she might have been screaming at her. Could it be...........

• Why are you puking in a drinking fountain? Do you know how DIRTY that is?

• Get back in the bathroom.....vomit in the TOILET where the rest of civilized society does!

• Are you pregnant? You better not be pregnant!!!

• Why are we at Walmart? You said you were well enough to go shopping!!! Are you stupid?

• Why the drinking fountain? Why not the floor? Why not the TRASH CAN right next to the drinking fountain?
  

• The lady with the mop is coming! How is she going to mop the drinking fountain?

• Are you okay? Should I call an ambulance? Are you dying?

• You are nasty! Sick! Just wait until I blog about this!
  

• The drinking fountain? Really? The DRINKING FOUNTAIN??? Why???

As a young girl I remember attending an Illinois "extended" family reunion - (complete with an ex-convict distant cousin) where someone brought a rotisserie chicken, "carved it " with their bare hands, and then washed from the elbows down in the park drinking fountain.

Not only was this the first time I realized I came from a long line of rednecks....it was also one of the first times I had the sneaking suspicion that water fountains weren't "for me".

Throughout Junior High and High School, I saw horrific things happen in drinking fountains. As an adult, the gym drinking fountain always has "something" floating on top of the drain (that I will not disclose because of the gag reflex it causes me by simply thinking of it - let alone writing about it).

Nothing good ever came out of a drinking fountain. In fact - did you know that they are dirtier than toilets? Read here.

Consider this posting a public service announcement....delivered out of love.

"THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK!"